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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | stevenjmiller's comment | |
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| Apr 23 07:37:15 | The Bonding of Isaac | ♥ 1 | The title and weaponry earn this an easy 9/9 in humor (it says it is out of 5, but you can rate it 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, or 5, which is clearly 9 options). Also, unfortunately, I can't give any game that gets a 5 (or 3 stars, if you believe in that sort of thing) or higher in fun anything but a 1 in theme, as that is a clear indication that the genres were, in fact, compatible. Actually, I just rate every game a 1 now. Nothing personal, just need to keep my win streak alive 😎 | |
| Apr 23 15:54:23 | 8h 17m | Pill-Boy's Text Adventure Platformer | ♥ 0 | Really cool game, and easy to understand. However, I couldn't leave the last level (typing "end" just gave me "Cheaters will be banned."). |
| Apr 23 16:21:35 | 27m 12s | Clidger | ♥ 1 | Fun game, the idea is really well executed. My best distance was 14km. As for improvements, I would recommend adding support for WASD, as the mouse is used so heavily. Also, the rounding may need to be modified, as it could say I had 4M clicks when I really only had 3.7M or so, meaning it appeared to me that I could get a 4M upgrade when I couldn't. It may also be beneficial to allow for some of the transitions to be skipped or sped up. Overall, fantastic job! |
| Apr 23 16:30:14 | 8m 39s | Pretty Crowded Dungeon | ♥ 1 | Cool game! By best score was 1350. Also, I encountered a bug on one of my runs:pcd.png |
| Apr 23 16:46:06 | 15m 52s | Binary Blocks | ♥ 1 | Amazing game, the polish is off the charts! |
| Apr 23 17:09:01 | 22m 55s | Rythm is Lava | ♥ 1 | Super fun game, I love the presentation! |
| Apr 23 17:59:06 | 50m 05s | Netcrawler | ♥ 2 | Amazing game, though I think the difficulty kind of levels off. I stopped at wave 66 with a score of 314, but I think I could've made it much further. The mechanics are engaging and I felt like it was pretty well balanced. I would love to see post-jam version of this! Also, I ran into a bug where a tile ended up off of the board:LDnetbug.png |
| Apr 23 18:09:01 | 9m 55s | PE@CE | ♥ 1 | Great game, the balance between aesthetic and readability is phenomenal. I also thought you did a great job with the difficulty curve. I am awful at platformers, yet the difficulty curve made it so that I could get used to the mechanics and actually complete it. Great job! |
| Apr 23 21:29:10 | 3h 20m | Type Away - a fast paced text based endless runner... with zombies | ♥ 2 | Great game! I think the difficulty might need to pick up more, as after getting into the flow of things, it becomes fairly easy. On my best run, I survived 576 seconds before stopping and letting the zombies catch up to me. |
| Apr 23 21:42:30 | 13m 20s | Card Person Shooter | ♥ 0 | Cool game, but I think it needs more visual feedback. For instance, including some indication that an enemy is taking damage would make it easier for a new player to pick up the mechanics (different color cards hurting different colored enemies). It may also be beneficial to make health drain slower, or add in some invincibility frames, as it is currently very easy to die by having an enemy sneak up behind you. Lastly, I think that changing the aspect ratio and making the window taller could be extremely helpful. Currently, unless you are looking down, you can't actually see the cards you're throwing. At first I didn't realize how short the viewing window was, so when I didn't see the cards, I thought I had run out of ammo. Overall, I quite liked the game, though I think that a little more polish would make it more intuitive and engaging to play. |
| Apr 23 22:33:17 | 50m 47s | Lacerti and the Puzzling Dungeon | ♥ 1 | Fantastic game! I completed it and found all 15 gems (though the last 2 took a bit of exploration). The only issue I had was that it was a bit difficult to kill enemies, but that is only a minor gripe. Overall, I loved it, great job! |
| Apr 24 06:27:23 | 7h 54m | The Matter at Hand | ♥ 1 | I think it's safe to say that I am biased towards tile-based puzzle games, but this my favorite of your LD entries. The art is very crisp and the music is phenomenal, to the extent that I didn't even realize the game didn't sound effects because it held up the atmosphere so well on its own. I agree that an expanded version would be cool, though I'm not sure how well the mechanics would scale, as a decent amount of the difficulty seems to stems from a lack of readability (in a good way, as in there being enough branching paths to require looking ahead). Personally, I find that expanding games like this to be quite challenging, as increasing the difficulty can quickly lead to the level design becoming muddled (HackOS in particular had this problem), which makes solving later levels feel like a chore rather than a rewarding challenge. Still, I hope you do toy around with it, I think the mechanics have a lot of potential. I hope this places really well, it certainly deserves to! Also, happy belated birthday! |
| Apr 24 20:04:59 | 13h 37m | Puzzle Golf | ♥ 1 | Great game and combination! I ended up with a score of 33. |
| Apr 24 21:14:07 | 1h 09m | Flappy Blocks | ♥ 1 | This game is way more fun than it has any right to be. Seriously phenomenal. My only suggestion would be adding a button to instantly restart a level. I am currently stuck on level 4, though I plan to keep trying. |
| Apr 25 00:37:39 | 3h 23m | PlatSCII | ♥ 3 | Fun game! I quite like the style, and the music fits well. In terms of improvements, I think making the text box be permanently active would make the gameplay a little smoother. Currently, the mouse is only used to click on the text box, so having to do seems a bit odd and very slightly hurts the pacing. As a side note, it seems the best way to go about levels is to type j repeatedly, as the game allows for jumping even when the player is already in the air. I'm not entirely sure if this was intentional, though it makes double jumping feel impractical, as it is faster to type "j < enter > j < enter >" than "j+j < enter >". Overall, I thought the game was great! |
| Apr 25 05:59:03 | 5h 21m | Hoop Tactics | ♥ 1 | Very fun game! The AI works really well and I liked the difficulty level. It required strategy and planning, but was still accessible and easy to pick up and play. I won 12 to 4. |
| Apr 25 06:14:00 | 14m 57s | Shady Tactics | ♥ 1 | This is superb! The genres are blended expertly and the shadows make for a very unique set of strategies. |
| Apr 25 07:47:55 | 1h 33m | ShardReign - A love Story | ♥ 3 | This is brilliant! The environments are beautiful yet minimalistic, and the cast is quite colorful. Though the thing that is most impressive is the number ways to handle each scenario and the sheer amount of dialogue possibilities there are. On my first run, I went through without hurting or threatening anyone and helped all of the NPCs. After that though, I did several runs where I just experimented, and I was amazed at the amount of ways to get through the game. One of my favorite moments was lighting the snake on fire after she said she was cold, and I loved that there was specific dialogue in response to that event. Details like this and the overall care put into the world and narrative really make this game stand out. I would love to see an expanded version of this! |
| Apr 25 09:31:54 | 1h 43m | If Potato Meets Flag Then | ♥ 1 | Amazing game! The way the puzzles are solved definitely reminds me of Baba is You, though the mechanics are actually quite different, making the gameplay itself feel very unique and original. I really enjoyed the puzzles, especially the later ones, and I think that the level design is extremely well done. |
| Apr 27 03:27:14 | 41h 55m | Goal and Crossbones | ♥ 1 | Excellent game! My best score was 8. Also an interesting note, (and I think this is relevant to the problem @ooku had) I was having difficulty for the first few games because I couldn't get the skull to shoot diagonally. At first, I thought it might be a bug, but after using an online keyboard tester, I found out that my keyboard just doesn't recognize that the space bar is pressed if I am holding down multiple arrow keys at the same time (this is called keyboard ghosting, I had heard of it but never encountered it before). I then tried using WASD, and the game worked perfectly. |
| Apr 27 04:22:29 | 55m 15s | Quest Sweeper | ♥ 1 | This is brilliant, I loved the variations between each level and the difficulty was just right. On my first run, I got 7:31. After that I moved onto hard mode, and after a couple of failed attempts, I beat it in 7:21. |
| Apr 27 06:05:06 | 1h 42m | Turn-based Bullethell | ♥ 1 | Fantastic job, this works unbelievably well! My best score was 7500. |
| Apr 30 04:53:28 | 70h 48m | Someone Is Wrong On The Internet | ♥ 2 | Excellent game and presentation! The last couple websites were quite frantic and I felt like the game was very well balanced. |
